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Spring 2012 Course List

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hours with teaching faculty based on the credits to be earned. Usually 50 minutes
or more of weekly contact time per credit earned is required. Contact time is provided
through formal in-class instruction as well as other instructional activities
facilitated by the teaching faculty member.

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American Studies

CDS423 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

The course introduces students to methods and materials used by
historians and ecologists in the study of the U.S. West. This
semester our focus will be on wilderness. We will explore changing
conceptions of wilderness from the Pre-Colonial era to the present,
analyze the role of human activities in influencing the quantity,
quality and character of wilderness, and examine how wilderness
contributes to the ecological health of systems. Prerequisite: None

CDS570 - 4 Credits -

The proposed plan of this class is to focus on
how communities rebuild after disaster and to give students an
opportunity to do real service in one specific community,
Wilmington VT, which was devastated by Hurricane Irene on August
28th, 2011.

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The objectives of the class are as
follows.

- To discover and discuss contemporary ideas
regarding disaster planning and recovery at the local and global
level, including the ideas and work of urban designers, climate
change specialists, politicians and civic activists.

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- To assist in whatever way is most supportive
and helpful with the recovery of the community of Wilmington.

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There are three things that I think the class
can offer the community. First the students placed with various
community organizations and individuals can provide leg-work
wherever the community decides/thinks it is needed (students can
provide real assistance in small-scale rebuilding projects
(painting, minimal construction, cleaning) projects in a winter
environment. Second, the course will provide a forum for community
discussion and engagement with long-range planning and response to
disaster. Third, the faculty involved will provide research and
assistance with the creation of planning documents and grant
applications (possible collaboration with the Marlboro College
Graduate School may enhance this potential outcome). I am hoping
that students can be placed with organizations and individuals and
in their placements will be able to:

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Learn about Wilmington, its history, its people and the ways it
responded to and is still responding to the flood and its
aftermath.

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The academic component of the class will focus
on urban design and contemporary history examining the work of
planners who have redesigned and helped to rebuild communities
after hurricane Katrina and the tornados that hit Greensburg, KA in
2007 and Springfield, MA in 2011 in particular. The focus of our
reading will be on contemporary material that deals with disaster
planning, recuperation and rebuilding. In addition we will study
how communities respond to and surmount disasters, building
community consensus, green building and energy efficiency and
negotiating systems to make positive change happen.

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Cross-disciplinary nature of the class
and the community service work that the students will
do:

By its nature urban design practice is
cross-disciplinary. In order to be successful urban designers and
thinkers must engage with the community on a series of levels,
these levels include, but are not limited to, the social, economic,
aesthetic and political. The hope of this class is that students
will have an opportunity to learn about all these areas of
community engagement at the same time that they understand the
nature of their interconnectedness in one community. In addition,
because the community in which we are working wants to have a way
of capturing, recording and remembering the
communityâ€™s response to disaster there may be an
opportunity or a need for some students to engage in ethnographic
data collection, this may include video or photography. Also,
because most of the contemporary disasters that have caused the
greatest amount of damage and destruction can be directly connected
to Global Climate Change, the course will need to discuss both the
scientific and political ramifications of climate
change.Â Finally, because responding to
and rebuilding after disaster requires such a vast amount of
resources the class will do some reading and research on grants,
federal funding and infrastructure rebuilding programs at both the
federal and state level. Students will be encouraged to choose
which disciplinary focus of the class they are most interested in
working on. They may have the opportunity to have a placement that
is directly related to their intellectual interest, although
because of the nature of Wilmingtonâ€™s resources,
this is not guaranteed.

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Themes: Urban Design, Urban
resilience and disaster planning, Community development and
action.

HUM721 - 2 Credits - Advanced

The seminar is organized around the different research topics of
seniors doing Plan work in American Studies. Students will present
their research in progress and read and critique each other's
writing. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Permission of
instructor

HUM661 - 4 Credits - Introductory

The course traces the history of family life in the US from the
late nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on an
interdisciplinary range of readings from history, sociology,
anthropology and gender studies, we will explore how the family has
both affected and been affected by the major historical
developments of the past century. Topics to be examined include
changing conceptions of marriage, child rearing and sexuality; the
ongoing debate over family values as it relates to public policy;
and the contested and shifting relationship between feminism and
the family. The course is designed to highlight how cultural
meanings and experiences of family life have changed over time and
how those meanings and experiences have been shaped by race, class,
ethnicity and gender. Prerequisite: None

Anthropology

SSC550 - 4 Credits - Introductory

Drawing on work from visual
anthropology and related fields, this course explores the world of
things that are made by people with the intention that they will be
seenâ€”and seen as
meaningfulâ€”by others. Along with art, artifacts,
goods, and stuff we will consider visual media such as photography,
film, and drawing. A broad survey class, we will engage in reading
texts and examining a range of objects while considering questions
such as: How do we see in the double sense of perceive and
understand in culturally-specific ways? How do objects accrue
value? How are things made and remade for different uses? And what
about issues of skill in both the process of fabrication and
seeing?

SSC549 - 2 Credits - Advanced

This is a continuation of the Plan Seminar of the same name
offered in fall semester 20112. -- Whenever we write, we enter into
a community of people sharing ideas. This seminar is intended to
provide a space in which students on Plan in anthropology and
related disciplines can come together to discuss their reading and
writing. Prerequisite: Senior Plan work in anthropology or a
related discipline.

SSC551 - 3 Credits - Intermediate

Violence melds into the everyday and
manifests itself in domesticsettings, medical facilities, the marketplace, and workings
of thestate and other human organizations. At other times it
explodes anddefines events to which we give such labels as
â€œwarâ€ or
â€œrevolution.â€Drawing largely but not exclusively on readings in
anthropology, thiscourse will survey the work of a range of authors writing on
suchtopics as gendered violence, the violence of poverty, the
aftermath ofviolence, witnessing, and representing violence. We will meet
todiscuss readings on Mondays; Thursdays are reserved for the
occasionalfilm.

Note: Students may opt to write a large final term paper and
receive 4credits for the course.

Textbooks

Title

Author

ISBN

New Price

Violence in War and Peace

Scheper-Hughes

9780631223498

$52.95

Regarding the Pain of Others

Sontag

9780312422196

$14.00

Art History

HUM1105 - 4 Credits - Introductory

Who made it? For whom did they make it? And Why did they make
it? These are some of the longstanding questions that have framed
and structured the discipline of art history. But over the last 20
years art history has changed dramatically, destabilizing the
status of even these most fundamental of the discipline's
questions. Many art historians focus on an entirely different set
of questions, such as: How was the image or sculpture understood?
How was it displayed? Who saw it? In what way does a work's style
reinforce a specific cultural ideology? In this course, which will
serve as an introduction to the study of art and art history,
students will learn a variety of ways of looking at and
understanding visual culture. The course will begin by setting up a
chronological framework for the study of world art, it will then
leapfrog through time stopping to examine works of art in various
periods and the ways in which art historians have written about
them. The focus of the course will be on paintings, sculptures and
various forms of art objects although there will be some discussion
of architecture as well. Prerequisite: None

Asian Studies

HUM978 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

What are time
and space? Paradoxically, they appear to be universal yet
culturally distinct; ineffable yet quotidian. Drawing on the
disciplines of history, geography, art history, literature, and
religion, this course will investigate the ways in which time and
space have been shaped and understood in Asia. We will begin by
considering traditional connections between space and power in
temple architecture and pilgrimage rituals, the fengshui (geomancy) and
correlative cosmology of China, and the principle of emptiness in
Japan. The course will then examine the changes wrought in Asian
conceptions of time and space by modernizing projects ranging from
cartography in Thailand to irrigation in Indonesia.Prerequisite: Previous
coursework in anthropology, cultural history, art history, history
or Asian studies, or permission of instructor

HUM1075 - 4 Credits - Introductory

A continuation of Ancient Chinese History and Culture, this
course will examine the major trends in Chinese history from the
17th century to the present. Along the way we will consider
phenomenal expansion of China's territory, population, and economy
under the Manchu Qing dynasty. We will then explore the onslaught
of rebellion, reform, and revolution that put an end to the
imperial system. Finally, we will study the radical communism of
Mao Zedong and conclude by looking at the challenges facing China
today. Throughout the semester we will attend to the environmental
concerns that have contributed to transforming Chinese culture.
This class, or its predecessor, is a pre-requisite for
participation in the spring 2012 college-sponsored trip to
China.Â Prerequisite: None

Astronomy

NSC606 - 2 Credits - Introductory

An introduction to observational astronomy designed to be
accessible to non-science students.
The primary goal of this course is for you to learn about astronomy
by observing the night sky. During this class you will learn
constellations and celestial objects.Â We will use some
small telescopes and the MacArthur Observatory, but will primarily
conduct naked-eyes observations.

Prerequisite:
None

Biology

NSC291 - 4 Credits - Introductory

General Biology serves as an introduction to the scientific
study of life and basic biological principles. In this second
semester we will explore biological concepts at the organismal and
population level. Topics will include evolution, the diversity of
life, plant structure and function, animal structure and function,
and ecology.

NSC111 - 4 Credits - Introductory

An introduction to the physical and biological environment of
the planet: climate, oceans, landforms, biological life-zones. No
prerequisites. Recommened for non-science majors, and as an
introduction to the sciences at Marlboro. Will probably include one
or more field days. Prerequisite: None

Textbooks

NSC41 - 4 Credits - Introductory

Plants are vital elements of life on earth and spectacular in
their diversity.Â Mosses, ferns, conifers, and
flowering plants will be among the plants we
investigate.Â Our explorations will include questions
about morphology, reproduction, physiology, ecology and evolution
in these groups of plants.Â In addition to discussion,
we will also have the opportunity to learn about plants in
lab/greenhouse and field settings.Â Prerequisite: None

NSC610 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

Scientists have
traced the migrations of humans out of Africa and across the Middle
East, Europe, Asia, and beyond. Contained in the DNA of people
around the world are clues to these patterns of migration. Even
today, in the DNA of each one of our cells, is evidence of our
place in this story of human origin and migration. Variation in the
sequences of our DNA reveals these ancient patterns. Genetic
variation is also the raw material for many other types of
scientific research:Â e.g., studies of
human disease, and the genetic structure of populations of rare and
endangered species. This course is designed as an introduction to
the concept of genetic variation and to the tools used by
scientists to study this phenomenon. We will explore examples of
these studies from research on human origins, human disease, and
species conservation. The course will involve readings and
classroom discussions, laboratory work, and fieldwork.

Prerequisite: One
semester of college-level chemistry or biology

Textbooks

Title

Author

ISBN

New Price

Mapping Human History

Olson

9780618352104

$14.95

Human Heredity 8th

Cummings

9780495554455

$203.95

Ceramics

ART349 - 4 Credits - Introductory

This course will introduce students to the primary forming
methods in ceramics as well as providing the building blocks for a
technical understanding of the material and processes. Students
will be encouraged in a variety of making techniques working both
sculpturally and functionally. Prerequisite: None

ART102 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

Beginning with diverse assignments and concluding with
self-directed projects, this course will develop material
understanding and aesthetic choices. Ceramics history and
contemporary issues will be discussed. There will be a presentation
and written component.

Prerequisite:
Ceramics 1 or permission of the instructorAdditional
Fee:$95

Chemistry

NSC505 - 4 Credits - Introductory

The central focus of general chemistry is the composition of
matter and transformations of matter. In the second half of this
course we will examine in detail models of chemical bonds, reaction
kinetics, acid-base equilibria, and electrochemistry. We will also
explore some aspects of organic chemistry, nuclear chemistry, and
analytical chemistry. Environmental chemistry will continue to be a
secondary theme of the course as we relate all of these topics to
the effects of human activity on our environment. Prerequisite: General
Chemistry I (NSC158)

Textbooks

NSC506 - 2 Credits - Introductory

The laboratory sessions for the second semester will continue to
be an opportunity for students to hone their lab skills and to
explore topics and ideas discussed in class. Students will work in
teams to devise, conduct and analyze experiments on the synthesis
and properties of biofuels, and bio-remediation. We will use
primary literature to provide some context for our experiments, and
we will continue to focus on employing the principles of green
chemistry in our lab experiments. Prerequisite: General
Chemistry I Laboratory, Co-requisite: General
Chemistry II

Classics

HUM286 - 2 Credits - Introductory

This is a beginner's course in Ancient Greek. Greek is a truly
special language, with an incredible variety of expression, beauty
of sound, and richness of thought, literature, and history. It is
also a challenging language, and students should be prepared for
regular short quizzes to reinforce material as we go along, but
consistent effort will pay rich dividends. We'll be working from
John Taylor's 'Greek to GCSE', which introduces students to the
basic elements of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary through stories
set in authentic Ancient Greek contexts. Prerequisite: None

Computer Science

NSC582 - 3 Credits - Intermediate

An introduction to what computer scientists mean by
"information", including topics in data compression (such as zip
files and mp3), error correcting codes, information entropy,
cryptography, and randomness. This is an intermediate course in
computer science, and as such requires some background in
programming as well as math through at least pre-calculus.

NSC583 - 4 Credits - Introductory

An introduction to the various technologies behind the internet,
including HTML, CSS, TCP/IP, DNS, and a whole lot of other
acronyms. The course will be roughly divided into two parts: one on
web page creation, and the other on internet infrastructure along
with a little history and culture. Depending on the background of
the participants, we may also do a little JavaScript, the
programming language that makes web pages "do" things. Further
internet related work at Marlboro (such as the Web Programming
class) builds on the material in this course.

NSC490 - 3 Credits - Multi-Level

In this course we'll work on improving your programming skills
and practice, bridging the gap between a beginner's understanding
of the craft and an intermediate to advanced understanding. Expect
some project based work, with students or groups of students
developing and commenting on each other's code, as well as assigned
readings and exercises on topics such as object oriented
programming, functional programming, recursion, scope, threads and
forks, graphics and graphical user interfaces, version control,
API's, documentation, testing, and so on. We will likely use more
than one programming language, depending on the background and
experience of the participants; likely candidates include C,
Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, lisp, or one of their variations.
Prerequisite:
Previous programming experience

Cultural History

SSC552 - 4 Credits - Multi-Level

In international politics and
popular culture, spies are figures of fascination and mystery. Spy
fiction is one of the dominant genres of cultural consumption of
the past century, and, despite the end of the Cold War, the
popularity of spy stories continues. What is the attraction to
these stories and these characters? While
â€œdetectivesâ€ work retroactively,
piecing together clues to an event that has already happened, spies
are engaged in reading â€“ and manipulating
â€“ contemporary reality to engage patterns that
affect the immediate future. We will explore the spy figures of
fiction and film, as reflections of historical situations of war
and loss of empire, including the greatest spy scandal of the Cold
War. We will also trace the development of spycraft and consider
the increasing presence, even normalization, of surveilllance in
contemporary society. .

SSC553 - 4 Credits - Introductory

An introduction to Russian history through key moments of change
and touchstones of national identity and cultural memory.
Â Â From the early center of Kievan Rus to
the rise of Moscow as â€œthe third
Rome,â€ to the invention of St. Petersburg as a
â€œwindow on the West,â€ to expansion
across Siberia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, Russia grew from
small villages to the largest continental empire in history.
Â We will consider cultural ideas of Russian identity
that developed through this history, with special focus on
nineteenth century debates about the future of Russia (Slavophiles
and Westernizers; populists and Marxists) and on contemporary views
of Russia as a unique â€œEurasianâ€
entity, reflected in nationalism today. Â We will draw
on the arts as well as historical writings, and individual papers
may explore either.

Prerequisite:
None

Textbooks

Title

Author

ISBN

New Price

Icon and the Axe

Billington

9780394708461

$24.00

Natasha's Dance

Figes

9780312421953

$23.00

Fathers and Sons

Turgenev

9780140441475

$13.00

Dance

ART592 - 1 Credit - Introductory

Learn a vocabulary of expressive movement, how to follow, lead,
and improvise in a close partnership, all to a variety of great
music. Argentine Tango is an evolving social dance, popular
throughout the world - even here in Brattleboro. May be taken
repeated times for credit.Â Prerequisite: None

ART2314 - 2 Credits - Multi-Level

A ballet class open to both beginners and students with
experience. Â For qualified dancers, a pointe section
will be offered after each regular class. Â Pointe
section for qualified students 2:50-3:30.

ART537 - 2 Credits - Introductory

Contact Improvisation (CI) is an exploration of the movement
that is possible when two bodies are in physical contact, using
each other's support to balance and communicating through weight
and momentum. CI was invented in the United States in the early
1970s and it has since spread all around the world, where it is
practiced both as a social dance and as a component of post-modern
dance performance. In this class, we will learn basic skills and
concepts to enter the practice of contact improvisation. We will
work to develop comfort with our bodies, to trust one another, to
take risks, to make choices in the moment, and to understand the
forces of physics as they apply to the body in motion. We will
listen to sensation, communicate through skin and muscles, develop
reflexes for falling and flying, and find access to our own
strength and sensitivity.

ART911 - 4 Credits - Introductory

This course examines the intersection of dance and
social/political activism, focusing primarily on American modern
dance performance, but taking detours into the dances of other
times, places, and cultures. How can dance participate in
addressing social issues? How has it done so in the past? Can dance
actually spark social change? We will examine dances that bring
social and political themes to the concert stage, dances that
protest in the street, dance companies that challenge the politics
of who gets to dance, and more. Class work will be based in
discussion of readings and dance films, but the course will also
include guest speakers, creative projects, field trips/service
learning, and a research paper.

Prerequisite: Some
previous dance experience OR permission of the instructor

ART2219 - 2 Credits - Multi-Level

In this course, we will develop expansive, articulate, and
powerful dancing through a study of principles of contemporary
release-based technique, complimented by a study of Rudolf Laban's
effort qualities. Core concepts will include weight, momentum,
alignment, breath, focus, and muscular efficiency. We will work on
finding center, playing off balance, moving in and out of the
floor, going upside down, and finding clarity in our bodies.
Through our practice, we will develop strength, range of motion,
balance, flexibility, stamina, self-awareness, and coordination.
This course combines intermediate and advanced level study, with
students at the two levels assisting each other in learning.

Prerequisite:
Previous Dance Experience and Permission of the Instructor

Economics

SSC487 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

Economists, politicians, and pundits offer various and seemingly
contradictory analysis and advice on the present state of the
economy and the urgent policy challenges we face. Can we reconcile
--or at least appreciate--these differences, and can we arrive at
our own informed understanding? This course--offered as a group
tutorial in Spring 2012-- draws on insights from economic theory,
institutional analysis, and current events in considering such
aspects of macroeconomic structure and performance as inflation,
unemployment, growth, taxation, inequality, debt, money and credit,
exchange rates, and trade policy. This course and Intermediate
Microeconomics together constitute the core sequence in Economics
normally required for Plan work in the field.Â
Prerequisite:
Introductory economics or permission of instructor

Note: The "group tutorial" designation means that I expect a
greater degree of collaborative engagement from students than I
might otherwise expect in a course covering the same
material.Â For my planning purposes, I would appreciate
hearing from interested students before the beginning of the
semester.Â This spring offering means that the course
will not be offered in 2012-13.

Textbooks

SSC19 - 4 Credits - Introductory

We live in interesting and challenging economic times. The U.S.
and much of the world are in prolonged stagnation, with high
unemployment, flat or declining incomes for most people, and great
suffering. These are also times of great opportunity and great
transition. Credit markets need to be revitalized, the role of
government in the economy re-imagined, the relationship between
workers and employers rethought, and global economic relations
reconsidered.

This course offers an historical, institutional, and theoretical
introduction to the U.S. economy, its problems and prospects. You
are invited to 1) become familiar with the essential features of
the U.S. economy and its place in the global system, 2) understand
the basic elements of macroeconomic analysis, and 3) develop and
defend policy approaches to current economic challenges.

This is the second half of an introductory sequence in
economics.Â There are no prerequisites, but priority
will be given to students who completed Economic Systems in the
fall.

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Textbooks

Title

Author

ISBN

New Price

Enigma of Capital

Harvey

9780199836840

$16.95

Sweet Charity

Poppendieck

9780140245561

$20.00

Equality and Efficiency

Okun

9780815764755

$16.95

Capitalism and Freedom

Friedman

9780226264219

$17.50

Environmental Studies

NSC609 - 2 Credits - Intermediate

We will first develop a common base of knowledge necessary for
exploring issues in alternative agriculture.Â For the
remainder of the semester, students will choose an area of interest
to examine in detail such as intercropping, soil health, integrated
pest management, biodynamic farming, no-till agriculture,
permaculture, or biodiversity in agriculture.Â Students
are encouraged to use the Marlboro College Farm as a study
site.Â Previous work in the life sciences or permission
of instructor required.Â Credits can range from 2-4,
and time/day of the seminar will be based on student/faculty
schedules.

SSC548 - 4 Credits - Introductory

In our Environmental Mission Statement we commit to "using
energy efficiently and resources wisely." Do we? How do we know? In
this course we compare different methods of assessing environmental
impact and dig into the data to evaluate our performance via an
ecological footprint assessment of the undergraduate campus.
Â This will be complemented by hands-on activities
ranging across many topics within sustainability at every level of
the Marlboro community. These topics include energy, waste, food
and our landscape as well as whatever other projects we devise as a
class.Â

Prerequisite:
None

Textbooks

Title

Author

ISBN

New Price

Sharing Nature's Interest

Chambers

9781853837395

$34.95

For Environmental Studies offerings, see also:

Film/Video Studies

ART2301 - 2 Credits - Intermediate

An intensive hands-on workshop designed to help actors and
directors to work together in the exploration and development of
effective, resonant, and compelling characters. Students will be
expected to complete and discuss regular reading assignments from a
number of leading practitioners in script analysis and the
development of performances for the screen. Students will bring in
examples of favorite film scenes, script excerpts, and critical
reviews that address question of directing and performance.
In-class exercises will include script analysis, scene studies from
independent and studio films, preparatory exercises, auditions and
casting sessions, rehearsals, and critiques of students' filmed
scenes and sequences. Special attention will also be paid to
characters in Northern Borders, which will be filmed
starting April 2nd, through the Spring 2012 Film Intensive program.
Special guests,
including actors performing in Northern Borders, will lead
master classes, present their work, and rehearse their scenes. The
class will also observe actor rehearsals for Northern
Borders and the February production of Only Drunks and
Children Tell the Truth, starring Sheila Tousey
(Thunderheart and Sam Shepherd's San Francisco production
of The Late Henry Moss and Silent Tongue) and
Gary Farmer (Dead Man, Ghost Dog, Smoke Signals, Pow Wow
Highway, Disappearances). The class will also participate in
several small narrative film productions, in collaboration with
other departments, and stage an edition of The Queen City Radio
Hour, with students playing comic character roles. During the
Northern Borders film shoot, student directors and actors
will work in close consultation with Jay Craven, to closely observe
the decision-making process for each scene and each performance
being developed for the film. These students can also spin off to
assist other departments, as needed, and can prepare to shoot their
own scene(s) in the picture, if they are prepared. Student actors
will also have the chance to work on screen, even if they are not
cast in the principal roles available to young actors. Prerequisite: Must be enrolled
in the Movies from Marlboro Project

ART2303 - 2 Credits - Intermediate

This class will focus on the theory and practice of
cinematography for narrative and documentary
applicationsâ€”using the motion picture camera to
capture imaginative, expressive, and affecting images. Weekly
activities will include shooting assignments; in-class critiques;
readings; screenings; and discussion aimed at fostering fresh
visual thinking and an increased understanding of what's required
to capture closely observed and energetic cinematography. Regular
camera exercises will aim to develop technical competence,
theoretical understanding, observation skills, strategic visual
thinking, and imaginative cinematographic instincts. Areas of
inquiry and practice will include framing, composition, lighting,
camera movement, scene blocking, and
storyboardingâ€”using a variety of scripts and
documentary projects.

Students who plan to work in the camera, lighting, or grip
departmentsâ€”or as director trainees for
Northern Borders are strongly encouraged to enroll. Class
work will include Northern Borders location scouts, shot
listing, and discussion, to determine visual options. Students
working on the Film Intensive will be expected to participate in
the Northern Borders Pre-Production
classâ€”to advance planning for the shoot.
Prerequisite: Must
be enrolled in the Movies from Marlboro Project

ART2305 - 2 Credits - Intermediate

This workshop will provide students with opportunities to screen
and discuss edited scenes from a variety of films, to illustrate
editing technique. Students will also have hands-on opportunities
early in the semester to edit short student narrative films,
produced
in collaboration with other department, and a variety of material
including footage from the Northern Borders: Behind the
Scenes documentary film that will start shooting in January.
Out-of-class readings, student critiques, and master classes by
visiting special guest visits will contribute to theoretical
foundations that will inform the work undertaken during the
semester. Emphasis will be given to the idea of positioning the
viewer fully in the scene, through the establishment of mood,
place, and spatial orientation, timing, narrative articulation,
pacing, and character development. Special attention will also be
paid to sound editing.

Students may also work on their own projects and bring them into
class for review and critique. Students planning to participate in
the editing department for the Northern Borders film
intensive are expected to take this classâ€”and to
continue during pre-production and production
to work with the editing unit, where they will organize and take
notes from dailies screenings, read and organize material based on
script supervisorâ€™s notes, and take raw footage
and edit it into rough cut and fine cut scenes for critique and,
under the direction of the filmâ€™s senior editor,
inclusion in the finished film. Students working on the Film
Intensive will also be expected to participate in the Northern
Borders Pre-Production class to advance overall planning for
the shoot. Prerequisite: Must be enrolled
in the Movies from Marlboro Project

ART2300 - 2 Credits - Intermediate

This class will begin with a thorough review and discussion of
characters, themes, and narrative in both the Northern Borders
novel and screenplay. Then, using the script as the blueprint and
catalyst, students will work with department heads (Producer,
Director, Director of Photography, Location Manager, Gaffer, Key
Grip, Production Designer, Sound Recordist, Costume Designer,
Assistant Director, Editor, et. al) to
interpret the script for directorial, design, and cinematographic
choices, plus the details and logistics needed for production.
Department heads will assign appropriate readings and screenings
â€“ and work with students to 1) present workshops
demonstrating theory and practice in their respective areas, 2)
visit locations to plan scenes, and 3) work with students in their
respective departments, to mobilize the resources, personnel,
materials, and strategies needed to prepare for production. The
first several weeks will be used to fully understand the screenplay
and its needs for imaginative and effective production. Schedules
will then intensify as actual hands-on work begins, to prepare the
film shoot. Film screenings and discussions will also be scheduled
throughout the periodâ€”to provide exposure to
behind-the-scenes documentaries and interviews with various
production personnel from assorted films.

Lab Sections: Each student will work within a
film department, to carry out their role and responsibility for the
production. Department heads will assign appropriate readings and
screenings and work with students to 1) present workshops, 2)
organize short film productions, in collaboration with other
departments, demonstrating theory and practice in their respective
areas, 3) visit locations to plan scenes, and 4) work with students
in their respective departments, to mobilize the resources,
personnel, materials, and strategies needed to prepare for
production.
Departments will meet in the groups that follow. Prerequisite: Must be enrolled
in the Movies from Marlboro Project

ART2307 - Variable Credits - Intermediate

Students will report to and work with their respective
department heads for the duration of the Northern Borders
film shoot. Daily work will include all of the work associated with
studentsâ€™ individual crew job
descriptionsâ€”and the overall collaborative
production of the film. Crews are expected to work 12-hour days
(including meal breaks) for five-day weeks that will generally run
Mondays through Fridays during the production period. Evening
sessions will also be organized to view film dailies, review shot
lists and schedules, and discuss the progress and evolving
strategies for production. Prerequisite: Must be enrolled
in the Movies from Marlboro Project

ART2299 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

Relatively little attention has been paid to the cinema that has
emerged from northern and ruralplaces. Ingmar Bergman and Andrei
Tarkovsky enjoy elevated critical status but there is a larger body
of work that also examines the particularities of northern
experience. In this class, we'll view, discuss, and investigate the
place-specific characters, themes, narratives, and impact of films
from throughout the world, rooted in a northern culture and
experience. Discussion will also be paid to film aesthetics,
including cinematography, production design, lighting, editing, and
sound. Written materials, including screenplays, where available,
will be distributed to advance classroom discussion and critical
writing.

Students will be expected to write focused weekly critical
responses to the films screened, along with one longer paper and
three drafts of a short screenplay, rooted in a northern place.
Films include Courtney Hunt's Frozen River, Paul
Schrader's Affliction, Richard Pearce's
Heartland, Akira Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala, Claude
Berri's Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring,
Jan Troell's The Emigrants and The New Land,
Philip Borsos' The Grey Fox, John O'Brien's Nosey
Parker, Chris Eyre's Smoke Signals, Ingmar Bergman's
Scenes from a Marriage, Lasse Hallstroms My Life as a
Dog, Bruce Bereford's Black Robe, Zacharias Kunuk's
Fast Runner, Erik Skjoldbjaerg's Insomnia, Andrei
Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice, Sara Polley's Away from
Her, and Frederick Wiseman's Belfast, Maine. Special
screenings and discussions will also be arranged to highlight the
work of actors and department heads working on the Marlboro Film
Intensive's production of Northern Borders. Prerequisite: Must be enrolled
in the Movies from Marlboro Project

ART2290 - Variable Credits - Intermediate

Please note: Students working in the production department
(locations, assistant directors, production coordinators, unit
production managers) for the Northern Borders Film Intensive are
expected to take this class.

Low budget independent films, made outside of the studio system,
have delivered some of the most compelling film narratives in the
past forty years, often by having the freedom to explore the sort
of narrative risks that films produced within the studio system
choose to ignore.Â The low budget world has launched
the careers of many filmmakers who then moved on to larger studio
films, including Martin Scorsese, Steven Soderbergh, Spike Lee, and
Christopher Nolan.Â Other independent auteurs, such as
Hal Hartley and Jim Jarmusch, have chosen to remain outside of the
studio system to explore narratives that by design may have a more
limited audience.

This class will involve screenings of independent low budget films,
ranging widely in budget levels.Â We will have Skype
sessions and perhaps in-class visits with producers and directors
of many of these films, and will discuss both the logistical
aspects of their production as well as their creative aspects, and
will discuss how these two aspects are often closely
wed.Â We will also have conversations with leading
development executives and other producers, directors,
cinematographers, editors, and actors in the independent film
world, for which class members will be expected to prepare both
initial and follow-up questions based upon the background of the
visitor.

ART2302 - 2 Credits - Intermediate

Student filmmakers often overlook the importance of the art
department to the filmmaker's challenge of creating a distinct,
authentic, and captivating world where viewers enter and suspend
disbelief. This class will examine the theory and practice behind
the work to create a multi-layered world of production design and
art direction, where creative practitioners take on the tasks of
overall design, drafting, searching for props, designing costumes,
dressing
sets, wrangling vehicles, and much more. Effective production
design is crucial to the experience of a
filmâ€”and it will be extremely important to the
production of Northern Borders, with its period setting,
magical realist touches, and special elements like the county fair,
one-room schoolhouse, and Abiah Kittredge's "Egypt," a farmhouse
room that she has re-fashioned into something simultaneously
forbidding, mysterious, and irresistible. Production design
provides clues to plot, character, and theme. It interacts with
cinematography, performance, and editing to create narrative
meaning and resonance. Students will screen and discuss films,
paying special attention to the details and impact of design.
Assigned texts and special guests will deepen and intensify the
creative dialogueâ€”as will the hands-on work of
preparing the art
direction and design for Northern Borders, which will
provide a class focus. Prerequisite: Must be enrolled
in the Movies from Marlboro Project

ART2304 - 2 Credits - Intermediate

This unit will prepare and engage students in the many facets of
producing, production management, set management, and coordination
of budgets, locations, daily call sheets, Screen Actors Guild
reports, budgets, copyrights, procurement, the recruitment and
wrangling of professional crew members and in-kind production
support, and the hundreds of details that get a film production on
its feetâ€”and sustain its momentum in the face of
daily challenges. Students working in this department will take on
the jobs of assistant directors, unit production managers,
producers, production coordinators, and location
managersâ€”to oversee, plan, and manage the daily
work of physical production. Faculty member Chip Hourihan is a
widely experienced producer who specializes in making the
impossible happen on very low
budgets. His credits include the 2009 Academy Award nominated North
Country film, Frozen River. Prerequisite: Must be enrolled
in the Movies from Marlboro Project

ART2337 - 4 Credits - Multi-Level

Effective screenwriting requires an understanding of story
structure and an ability to shape character, theme, tone, and
incident to dramatic effect. This class will focus on the regular
practice of story and screenplay development, through writing
exercises, character research, narrative construction, and regular
revision aimed at producing scripts that can be produced, using
available resources. Emphasis will be on
writing scripts of twenty or fewer pages, so that they can be
regularly critiqued by the instructor and other students, and
re-written to maximize impact.Â Prerequisite: Permission of
instructor

ART2298 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

The main goal of this survey course is to introduce students to
the literature and culture of northern New England, and to
cultivate sharpened critical reading and writing skills. We'll read
novels, short
stories, essays, and poetry that explore and illuminate the
character, place, history, and culture of Vermont, New Hampshire,
and Maine. As we read and discuss these texts we will consider the
questions: To what extent is there a North Country character and
culture that is truly distinctive, compared to other parts of the
country? In what ways do New England writers develop themes that
resonate universallyâ€”and what has been their
contribution to an improved understanding of the American
experience? How do the writers of northern New England advance,
subvert, or interrogate the mythology of the
regionâ€”and what is that mythology? What images
of race, gender, family, and social class do we carry away from
this sampling of the region's literature?

Several of the writers we'll be reading will visit classes and
lead discussion. Students will be expected to fully read and
discuss assigned texts and associated critical materials.
Attendance and completion of weekly written assignments and two
longer papers will also be required. Texts include Russell Banks'
The Sweet Hereafter,
Annie Proulx's Heartsongs and Other Stories, Richard
Russo's Nobody's Fool, Ernest Hebert's The Dogs of
March, Jeffrey Lent's In the Fall, Gretchen Gerzina's
Mr. and Mrs. Prince, Craig Nova's Cruisers, and
Howard Frank Mosher's Where the Rivers Flow North. Also
poetry by Galway Kinnell, Adrienne Rich, Robert Frost, Hayden
Carruth, and David Budbill. Films will also be screened for The
Sweet Hereafter, Nobody's Fool, and Where the
Rivers Flow North. Prerequisite: Must be enrolled
in the Movies from Marlboro Project

Textbooks

Title

Author

ISBN

New Price

Northern Borders

Mosher

9780618240098

$18.95

Heart Songs and Other Stories

Proulx

9780020360759

$14.00

Lost Nation

Lent

9780802139856

$14.00

Olive Kitteridge

Strout

9780812971835

$14.00

No Place But Here

Keizer

9780874517903

$17.95

Dogs of March

Hebert

9780874517194

$15.95

Beans of Egypt Maine

Chute

9780802143594

$14.00

Nobody's Fool

Russo

9780679753339

$15.95

History

HUM1489 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

In this course we will look at a selection of topics covering
agricultural practices in a variety of cultures and time periods up
to the end of the 18th century.Â The initial topic will
look at the earliest shift from hunter/gatherer or mobile
agriculture practices to sedentary agriculture in the Middle
East.Â Subsequent topics will be chosen by the students
in the course but might include Roman Agronomics, the grain supply
in the Roman Empire, Muslim Agronomics, the Muslim "Green
Revolution," agriculture in "feudal" Europe, the crisis of the 14th
century, the Columbian exchange, causes of famine, European
Agricultural technology on the eve of the Industrial Revolution,
and possibly comparisons with agronomic practices in
non-industrialized societies today.Â Student work will
involve in class presentations and a research paper in an area of
their choosing.

HUM1491 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

The seminar will focus on the emergence of "small wars" in the
twentieth century and also on the efforts of larger powers to
contain and/or defeat them. The course has global aspirations, and
students will have an opportunity to explore for themselves some
conflict of their own choosing. Prerequisite: Previous college
level course in history

HUM1407 - 4 Credits - Advanced

Not a history of the many cultures that have existed around the
Mediterranean-Roman, European, Arab, Turkish-but rather a course
about the sea itself, we will look at what and why scholars have
written with fascination and even love about the "Middle Sea." 20th
century historiography has often sought to portray the multitude of
nations and peoples who have populated the Mediterranean since
ancient Rome as inextricably linked, through geography,
environment, economy, and even in anthropological descriptions of
culture. The discourse of interconnectedness in turn influenced
thinkers and writers studying everything from Japan to the 17th
century Atlantic. In this course we will survey the idea of
Mediterranean unity and examine the many tools historians have used
to dissect the life of the sea and the lives of its peoples.

Prerequisite:
Courses in History, Cultural History or Related and consent of
instructor

SSC555 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

This course will familiarize students with
various theoretical approaches within the fields of feminist and
queer theory. Rather than assume stable meanings for the terms
“feminist theory” and “queer theory,” this
course will interrogate the discursive work that these terms
perform and the politics of who and what gets attributed to them.
As a class, we will ask: how are gender and sexuality in a
co-constitutive relationship with race, class and nation? How do
these social categories depend on one another for their very
meaning and coherence in the making of social relations and
identities in the U.S. and beyond? What are the stakes in making
knowledge claims in these areas and what are the possibilities for
transforming social relations at this time. Topics covered include
performativity, Foucault’s History of Sexuality,
women of color feminisms, reproductive justice, nationalism and
war, globalization, Drag, and queer diaspora. It is recommended
that students who take this course have previous exposure to
theoretical writing in either the humanities or the social
sciences.

Prerequisite:
Permission of instructor and previous exposure to theoretical
writing.

CDS567 - 2 Credits - Introductory

This course will cover a wide variety of research techniques and
develop the students' knowledge of the many databases and search
platforms available at the college. We will also spend some time
looking at persistent questions in research such as the role of
online information, plagiarism, and others. This course can
compliment any year of course work.Â Much of the
practice use of databases and search systems can be used directly
for work being done in other courses - it is our hope that this
course will generally make your life easier. Prerequisite: None

NPM600 - 2 Credits - Advanced

Students will master the fundamental elements of running a
nonprofit agency. Topics include: Leadership, Conflict Resolution,
Marketing, Donor Fundraising, Grants and Earned Income, Financial
Management for Nonprofits, Strategic Planning, Human Resources, and
Boards and Governance. The class will meet at the Marlboro College
Graduate School in downtown Brattleboro on 10 Fridays during the
spring term, each time from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm. Students will be
assessed on the basis of three elements: (1) participation in the
face-to-face workshops, (2) active engagement in ten time-limited
online discussion forums, andÂ (3) submission of a 3-5
page reflective essay synthesizing the knowledge gained in the
workshop and other undergraduate coursework. Upon successful
completion of the course, students will receive a professional
development certificate in nonprofit management issued by the
Marlboro College Graduate School, and will be prepared to take a
leadership role in any mission-driven organization.

Undergraduate enrollment in Fundamentals of Nonprofit Management
will be capped at 6 students. Priority will be given first to
students who were enrolled in Jim Tober's Philanthropy, Advocacy
and Public Policy seminar spring 2011; then to students who were
enrolled in Meg Mott's Political Theory and the Ecological Crisis
course fall 2011; and thereafter to students for whom this could be
a Plan course; sophomores or juniors; and students with experience
working in the nonprofit sector.Â

SSC554 - 4 Credits - Introductory

This seminar examines qualitative
methods used in social science research, with specific attention to
feminist research methodologies. Methods covered include
participant observation, semi-structured interview techniques, oral
history, case studies and critical ethnography. We will also
consider indigenous methodologies, the history of research as a
tool of domination, and participatory action research. Seminar
readings on specific research methods will contribute to the
formulation of a research project. Recent literature on the
theoretical and ethical aspects of these methods will also be
considered in the context of these projects. During the course of
the semester students will produce a 10-15 page research
proposal.

HUM1026 - 6 Credits - Intermediate

This is the second half of a year-long course, reading and
discussion of the major works of western culture from the Old
Testament to Shakespeare. Heavy reading schedule, regular
discussions, papers required. Prerequisite: Seminar in
Religion, Literature, and Philosophy I or permission of
instructor

Textbooks

Title

Author

ISBN

New Price

Divine Comedy: Inferno

Dante

9780195004120

$19.99

Leviathan

Hobbes

9780872201774

$14.95

Discourse on Free Will

Erasmus

9780826477941

$19.95

Epic of Gilgamesh

Sandars

9780140441000

$11.00

Divine Comedy: Paradiso

Dante

9780140444438

$15.00

Confessions

Augustine

9780140441147

$10.00

Book of the City of Ladies

Pizan

9780140446890

$14.00

Oxford Study Bible

Suggs

9780195290004

$34.99

Divine Comedy: Purgatorio

Dante

9780140444421

$14.00

Selections from the Essays

Montaigne

9780882951058

$7.95

Holy Bible King James Version

none

9780452010628

$18.00

Discourse on Method and the Meditations

Descartes

9780872204201

$9.95

Canterbury Tales

Chaucer

9780140424386

$10.00

Introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas

Aquinas

9780075536536

$11.40

Beowulf

Heaney

9780393320978

$13.95

Paradise Lost

Milton

9780451531643

$7.95

Beowulf 2nd

Donaldson

9780393974065

$15.65

Divine Comedy: Purgatorio

Dante

9780195004137

$19.99

Divine Comedy: Paradiso

Dante

9780195004144

$19.99

Pensees

Pascal

9780140446456

$12.00

Prince

Machiavelli

9780140449150

$7.00

Tempest

Shakespeare

9780140714852

$6.00

Divine Comedy: Inferno

Dante

9780142437223

$13.00

Four Great Tragedies

Shakespeare

9780451527295

$7.95

Languages

HUM1142 - 4 Credits - Introductory

Introduces students to the phonology and script of
classical/modern standard Arabic and covers the basic morphology
and syntax of the written language. Emphasis on the development of
the four skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) at the
earliest stages. Samples of modern (contemporary) and classical
styles of writing introduced, and audio-visual material from the
contemporary Arabic media. Prerequisite: None

HUM1490 - 4 Credits -

City of Dreadful Delight, Mexico City: from Tenochtitlan,
capital city of the Aztec Empire, to Post-Modern Megalopolis
Â This course explores the role of the city in the
development of Mexican society and cultures from pre-colonial times
to the present. In Latin America, capital cities encapsulate the
country's political, industrial, financial, commercial,
entertainment, intellectual, cultural, and religious identities. On
their streets, and in their public and private buildings which have
been built and rebuilt for hundreds of years, rich and poor, native
and immigrant, men, women and children have worked, celebrated,
rioted, studied, created, voted, fought, thrived, suffered, loved,
hated, demonstrated and lived. The course will focus on Mexico City
(Mexico) as a case study in which to read the evidence of the
historical, political, social, economic, and cultural life of the
country.Â Taught in English, the course is part of
a Spring Break Trip to Mexico City.

HUM1492 - 2 Credits - Introductory

This course is designed for students who have taken Spanish
before but desire a review before formally entering the
Intermediate or the Beginning levels. The course covers the five
core areas of language learning: grammar, reading, writing,
speaking, and awareness of cultural and linguistic diversity within
the Spanish speaking world.

HUM1362 - 4 Credits - Introductory

This is the second half of first-year Chinese. Its aim is still
to help students to develop communicative competence in the four
basic skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing the Chinese
language. Students will learn basic vocabulary and sentence
structures for use in everyday situations through various forms of
oral practice. Students continue to learn Chinese characters as
well as pinyin in order to be able to communicate effectively in
real Chinese situations. While linguistic aspects of the Chinese
language are the primary focus, introduction to the social and
cultural background of the language will also form an important
part of the course.

An additional 50 minutes a week is to be added. The specific
time is based on the mutual agreement of those who wish to enroll
and the instructor.

HUM1363 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

This course is the continuation of Intermediate Chinese I.
Students will continue to learn more essential skills of listening,
speaking, reading, and writing for daily communication. A broad
variety of expressions and complicated sentence structures will be
taught so that students can participate in conversations on various
topics related to modern Chinese society. While equal emphasis will
be given to both characters and structures, students will be guided
to write more Chinese essays. Activities related to the broad
spectrum of Chinese culture will be organized to facilitate
language learning with knowledge and analysis of the cultural
background of the language. Prerequisite: Intermediate
Chinese I or permission of the instructor

HUM1493 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

In this fourth-semester German course, students will work on
strengthening their literacy skills as well as their oral and
written abilities in the German language. The main emphases will be
on continuing to develop communicative competence while expanding
vocabulary and reviewing basic grammar. Sustained engagement with
seminal literary texts from the twentieth century will foster a
deeper knowledge of and a critically informed perspective on German
cultural, political, and economic history.

HUM1133 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

A continuation of elementary Arabic with equal emphasis on aural
and oral skills, reading and writing. Selections from contemporary
Arabic media are introduced and serve as a basis for reading and
conversation. Prerequisite: Arabic IIA

HUM1403 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

Intermediate Spanish II is a course for students who have
completed Intermediate Spanish or have been deemed to be proficient
enough for this class after talking to the professor about prior
course work.Â Intermediate Spanish II builds on and
expands the language skills acquired in Intermediate Spanish. It
combines an extensive grammar review while focusing on all relevant
language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Culture
is integrated in all aspects of the program; therefore, we will
have critical discussions about the culture of different countries
of the Spanish speaking world. Frequent compositions, selected
literary readings, class discussions, and debates on films and
current events. It meets two times a week as a class and an extra
50 minute section with a language assistant, to be arranged.
Prerequisite: Two
semesters of college Spanish or equivalent

HUM1494 - 4 Credits - Introductory

This course explores what linguistic discourse analysis can
offer the study of literary texts. It looks not only at what a text
says in so many words, but at what a writer and a reader do with
words in order to jointly construct meaning from a text. While a
literary text may well refer to a given social or cultural reality,
what distinguishes it as literature from other discourse genres is
how it marshals the resources of language to represent, perform, or
enact a subjective experience of that reality. If literature is
understood not as an object to be grasped or a product to be
consumed but as a living dialogue between a writer and a reader,
then linguistics provides students of literature a set of
conceptual tools to describe, analyze, and interpret this dialogue.
Topics covered include discourse, story grammar, deixis, cohesion,
point of view, focalization, foregrounding, sound symbolism, speech
acts, turn-taking, face work, politeness, author/narrator, and
speech and thought representation.

Textbooks

Title

Author

ISBN

New Price

Linguistic Criticism 2nd

Fowler

9780192892614

$50.00

Narratology 3rd

Bal

9780802096319

$27.95

Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose

Short

9780582291300

$31.20

Practical Stylistics

Widdowson

9780194371841

$25.25

Literature

HUM1495 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

For the first six weeks, a reading of Dostoevsky's Crime and
Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov and shorter works by the author.
For the last six weeks, a reading of Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan
Ilyich and Anna Karenina.

HUM1497 - 1 Credit - Intermediate

In the seminal 19th century "golden age" of Russian literature,
Nikolai Gogol's importance cannot be underestimated. In this
course, we will do a close reading of his most famous and enigmatic
work: the novel Dead Souls, which he described as a social satire,
a novel and an epic poem. Published in 1842, it is a stylistically
heterogeneous and bizarre romp through the world of provincial
Russian landowners, and critiques their vices with its absurd and
bombastic humor.

Gogol's strikingly modern text has captivated readers since its
publication, and bears study for its poetics, its remarkable
social-satirical ambitions, and for its ability to offer us a
lasting myth about, as Pushkin put it, "our sad Russia." This
course is a month-long seminar, which can be taken in conjunction
with the Russian Novel course or on its own.

Prerequisites: One college-level literature course or permission of
instructors

Textbooks

HUM1469 - 2 Credits - Advanced

A year long course examining signs, memory, and meaning in three
novels of Marcel Proust.Â Fall semester: Swann's Way,
Within a Budding Grove, and The Guermantes Way.Â Spring
Semester: Cities of the Plain, The Captive, The Fugitive, and Time
Regained.

HUM1262 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

A survey of 20th Century American literature, this course will
pick up roughly where "Apocalyptic Hope" leaves off: out of the
American Renaissance, into the Gilded Age, the Naturalist and
Modernist period, and through two world wars: Â we will
trace the development of the "American" as it faces, often
reluctantly and, anyway, never without a fight, the inevitability
of the modern.Â

Â

We will begin with Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a
book Hemingway once famously called the beginning of all American
literature; from there we'll go on to consider the works of writers
and poets as various as Kate Chopin, Theodore Dreiser, T.S. Eliot,
Marianne Moore, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Sherwood
Anderson, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston,
Flannery O'Connor, Ralph Ellison and others.Â

Â

The point of this course -- like that of its sister course,
Apocalyptic Hope -- is to read as much as we can; to develop as
broad an understanding as possible of both canonical and
non-canonical 20th century literature, and to consider how that
literature has helped to shape not just the literature that
followed it, but who we are in the 21st century.

Prerequisite: Must
have passed CWR

Textbooks

Title

Author

ISBN

New Price

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Twain

9780142437179

$7.00

Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald

9780743273565

$15.00

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Hurston

9780060838676

$14.99

House of Mirth

Wharton

9781439169490

$6.99

Light in August

Faulkner

9780679732266

$15.00

Complete Stories

O'Connor

9780374515362

$18.00

Awakening

Chopin

9780380002450

$4.99

Winesburg, Ohio

Anderson

9780393967951

$15.65

Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway

9780684843322

$22.00

Invisible Man

Ellison

9780679732761

$15.95

Modern American Poets

DiYanni

9780070169579

$84.50

For Literature offerings, see also:

Mathematics

NSC212 - 4 Credits - Introductory

We build on the theory and techniques developed in Calculus.
Topics include integration techniques, applications of integrals,
series of real numbers, power series, Taylor series, parametric
equations and differential equations. Â We may cover
some other topics if time permits. Prerequisite: Calculus I or
equivalent

NSC611 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

Every map, no matter how the countries are laid out, can be
colored using just four colors in such a way each pair of adjacent
countries are different colors (there are some minor, natural
restrictions). Â This is the celebrated Four Color
Theorem. Â Conjectured to be true in the 1850s and
subject to many failed attempts at proof, it was controversially
settled in 1976. The controversy comes from the fact that the proof
relies on a computer calculation; no human has (or could) check all
of the details. Â This result lies within the field of
Graph Theory, one of the most vibrant subfields of math of the last
100 years (and still so today). Â This course will take
us through the methods used in the proof of the Four Color Theorem
by way of many discursions into Graph Theory. Â Topics
to be covered include chromatic polynomials, hamiltonicity,
planarity, graph decompositions and classifying polyhedra.
Â We'll also investigate related problems: What if each
country has a lunar colony that must be colored with the same color
as that country? Â How many colors would we need if we
lived on a torus?

Prerequisite:
Discrete Math or permission of instructor

Textbooks

NSC123 - 4 Credits - Introductory

Statistics is the science--and art--of extracting data from the
world around us and organizing, summarizing and analyzing it in
order to draw conclusions or make predictions. This course provides
a grounding in the principles and methods of statistics. Topics
include: probability theory; collecting, describing and presenting
data; hypothesis testing; correlation and regression; and analysis
of variance. Two themes running through the course are the use of
statistics in the natural and social sciences and the use (and
abuse) of statistics in the news media. Â We will use
the open source statistical computing package R (no prior computing
experience is assumed).

Prerequisite: Some
of Topics in Algebra, Pre-Calculus and Trigonometry, or the
equivalent (a reasonable level of high school math is fine).

NSC556 - Variable Credits - Introductory

This course covers a wide range of math topics prerequisite for
further study in mathematics and science and of interest in their
own right. The course is divided into over 50 units (listed on the
course web page). One credit will be earned for each group of 6
units completed. Students select units to improve their weak areas.
There are also tailored streams for students who wish to go on to
study calculus or statistics and for those who wish to prepare for
the GRE exam. Over this semester and next, 42 units will be offered
in the timetabled sessions. Individual tutorial-style arrangements
can be made to study the non-timetabled units or to study units
earlier than their scheduled session. Prerequisite: None

Music

ART2286 - 4 Credits - Multi-Level

The course will concern
â€œJazzâ€ music, a contentious, often
ill-defined set of musical practices and music-cultural signifiers.
We will track the evolution, master practitioners, and cultural
reception and arguments surrounding "jazz" throughout the previous
century and into this one.

The class will involve close listening to
recording, readings of scholarly articles and other, less scholarly
sources, 3 research projects, and editing / producingÂ one 60 minute episode of
a radio program about â€œJazzâ€.

ART496 - 1 Credit -

An opportunity for students to meet on a weekly basis to read
and rehearse music from the standard chamber music repertoire.
Woodwind, string, brass instruments welcome. Prerequisite: Ability to play
an instrument and read music. Course may be repeated for
credit.

ART2287 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

The course is designed for instrumentalists and vocalists to
compose and perform music written for the group. Each week,
participants will bring original compositions in various stages of
progress to study and perform, while exploring concepts in music
theory and composition emerging from the works. The course will
culminate in a public performance of the compositions.

Generally speaking, we will divide our time between exploring
the compositions in a classroom setting, and rehearsing them at the
recital hall.

The class is designed for more experienced students who are able
to read music and have a firm command of their instrument/s. If in
doubt, see the instructor to determine fit.

ART2288 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

The course will provide an introduction to concepts, techniques,
history and ideological frameworks informing electronic music.
Designed as equal parts hands-on practice and academic enquiry, we
will spend our time alternating between readings and listening to
works done in various genres of electronic music and practicing
basic techniques of sequencing, sampling, synthesis and
recording.

Course work will constitute on-going practical assignments, a
final project + paper, and weekly readings and listening
assignments.

The course is designed primarily for students who are or plan to
engage with music or sound design as part of their on-going course
of study at Marlboro. Particularly welcome are those for whom music
or sound may constitute some part of Plan.

ART673 - 4 Credits - Introductory

A study of works of Debussy, Ravel, Stravinksy, Schoenberg,
Hindemith, Bartok and others.Â The works will be put
into a socio-historical perspective.Â Students present
a talk on a 20th century composition of their choice. Prerequisite:
NoneÂ

ART825 - 1 Credit - Multi-Level

Ensemble singing for more experienced choristers. Ability to
read music and sight-sing. An exploration of repertoire from
Renaissance to contemporary music for small choral ensemble. May be
repeated for credit.Â Prerequisite: Audition or
permission of instructor

Philosophy

HUM1365 - 4 Credits - Advanced

This course will explore some of the most important texts in
twentieth-century â€œcontinentalâ€
philosophy. While some of the authors we will read come from
elsewhereâ€”for example the Caribbean or South
Asiaâ€”all of them are influenced by or engaged
with, or are the most significant thinkers in the dominant
movements of twentieth-century French and German philosophy, and
the work of each of these thinkers has had an enormous impact
across the humanities and social sciences.

SSC559 - 2 Credits - Introductory

This course is an
introduction to the philosophy and psychology of
emotions.Â Â Our theoretical work will be
accompanied by practices to explore and regulate
emotions.Â Â Together, we will inquire into
questions such as: What constitutes an emotion? How are emotions
experienced? What is the role of emotions in our lives? Does
culture affect our understanding and display of
emotions?Â Â We will begin with a study of
emotions in general, and then turn to study seven specific
emotions. We will also be developing the practice of mindfulness
meditation (the training of attention) in order to cultivate
greater awareness of and regulation of emotions.
Â Student Taught: Johnathan Wood

Textbooks

SSC559 - 2 Credits - Introductory

This course is an introduction to the philosophy and
psychology of emotions.Â Â Our theoretical
work will be accompanied by practices to explore and regulate
emotions.Â Â Together, we will inquire into
questions such as: What constitutes an emotion? How are emotions
experienced? What is the role of emotions in our lives? Does
culture affect our understanding and display of
emotions?Â Â We will begin with a study of
emotions in general, and then turn to study seven specific
emotions. We will also be developing the practice of mindfulness
meditation (the training of attention) in order to cultivate
greater awareness of and regulation of emotions.
Â Student Taught: Johnathan Wood

Textbooks

Title

Author

ISBN

New Price

Emotions Revealed

Ekman

9780805083392

$16.99

Photography

ART9 - 4 Credits - Introductory

This course provides an introduction to black and white 35mm
photography. Students will learn basic camera operation, film
exposure and development, and printing. Student work will be
discussed regularly in critique where visual communication will be
emphasized alongside technique. The course will also introduce some
of the fundamental issues and movements within the history of
photography. Prerequisite: None (manual
35mm camera will be helpful)Additional Fee:
$100

ART2285 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

This course will explore the history and issues of landscape
photography, from early surveys of the American West to current
practices. Through research, off-campus photo shoots, and
collaboration with other classes, we will consider the ethics of
representation as we make photographs in and of the landscape.
Prerequisite:
Introduction to B/W Photography at the college level or by
permission of instructor. Â Additional Fee: $100

Â

Physics

NSC607 - 4 Credits - Multi-Level

This Classical Mechanics class is suitable either for students
in transition to advanced physics classes or for students with a
good physics foundation who want to study Classical Mechanics more
in depth. This class provides a complete analysis of the classical
mechanics of particles, systems of particles, and rigid bodies. It
introduces the mathematical formalism needed for the quantum theory
of physics as well. Some of the included topics will be:
Oscillations and Nonlinear Oscillations and Chaos, some Methods in
the Calculus of Variations, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian
Dynamics.

Prerequisite:
General Physics I, Calculus I and II and III, or approval from the
Teacher

NSC427 - 4 Credits - Introductory

An introduction to the physics of electric and magnetic
phenomena, suitable for students considering a plan in physics or
science students who want a physics foundation. Topics include
electrostatic forces, electric and magnetic fields, induction,
Maxwell's equations, Â and some DC circuits.

Â

Prerequisite: General Physics I, Calculus I (Calculus II
suggested), or approval from the Teacher

Textbooks

Title

Author

ISBN

New Price

Understanding Physics Pt. 3

Cummings

9780471464372

$76.70

Politics

SSC557 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

The early modern era was a time of great change. No longer could
the Church dictate what was just nor could Monarchs claim that God
was on their side. As markets emerged and religion divided, people
began to rethink what it was that gave government authority. If not
God nor dynasty, could it be mere mortals?

Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, and Spinoza were all outsiders.
Teachers, exiles, and even an ex-communicant, these powerful
political writers were, at the time of their writing, without
political influence. They were, however, operating at a time when
political energies exceeded existing institutions and new ways to
think about good governance were in short supply. Along with the
political theorists, we'll read
Shakespeare'sÂ HamletÂ andÂ King
LearÂ which will help situate our discussions about
authority and freedom in the context of the Elizabethan crisis.

Course Objectives:

gain familiarity with the tradition of political theory;

practice recognizing and articulating political problems;

use political theory to provide solutions to the ongoing
problems of governance

SSC556 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

This course will examine the process of theory building and
paradigm change during the first three generations of 3rd World
development scholarship. Â In particular, the three
major schools of modernization, dependency, and post dependency
theory will be analysed in light of their comparative contributions
and limitations. Â Theoretical discussions will be
grounded in the empirical context of real life 3rd World
development challenges.Prerequisite:
Â Social Sciences background or permission of
instructor

HUM1506 - 2 Credits - Multi-Level

A tutorial exploring the uses of poetry, storytelling, and personal
narrative as political mediums. Using contemporary political theory
and medical anthropology, we will examine how writing enhances
political subjectivity, particularly through the restructuring of
memory. This tutorial will also explore teaching strategies that
encourage student self-empowerment.

SSC50 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

A study of the physiology and psychology of perception, the
means by which we maintain contact with and obtain knowledge about
the environment. Participants will be required to conduct a series
of empirical projects throughout the semester. Prerequisite: A year of
Psychology, Sociology, or Biology, or permission of instructor

Textbooks

Title

Author

ISBN

New Price

Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

Gibson

9780898599596

$64.95

Sociology

SSC6 - 4 Credits - Advanced

The major ideas, theories, and methodologies of some of the
European and American founders of sociology. The works of Marx,
Weber, Simmel and Veblen will be evaluated in relation to the
evolution of industrial society. Prerequisite: Introductory
course in sociology or permission of instructor; history and/or
philosophy helpful.

SSC558 - 1 Credit - Introductory

The goal of this course is to provide students from diverse
racial, ethnic and class backgrounds the opportunity to learn from
and with each other about issues of racial and class conflict and
common ground in an atmosphere of openness and mutual engagement
and respect. This course will feature a multitude of Marlboro
College professors and local community leaders facilitating
interactive dialogue inspired by texts, movies, current issues and
general Marlboro atmosphere. Please note: this is not a course in
which you can sit back and not use your voice. Attendance and full
participation are required at each session.

For Sociology offerings, see also:

Theater

ART904 - 3 Credits - Intermediate

Robert Barton has noted, "We perceive style in terms of our
expectations." From the expansiveness of Elizabethan and Jacobean
plays to the taut control of Noel Coward's texts, this class will
give us the opportunity to interrogate our own expectations as we
explore the possibilities of theatrical performance within the
context of period plays. The course will include fight scenes
choreographed by Jodi Clark and require rehearsal time outside of
the designated class period. Prerequisite: Acting 1 and
permission of the instructor

ART2232 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

Employing tools of critical analysis from the fields of
performance studies and disability studies, this course is an
interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which cultural images
of "normal" are constituted, legitimated, and even occasionally
subverted in theatre and popular entertainment in the United
States.&#8232; We will study works as diverse as Tod Browning's
film Freaks, Suzan-Lori Parksâ€™ play Venus, the
reality TV program Britainâ€™s Missing Top Model,
and the TV pageant/plastic surgery extravaganza The Swan. 4
credits. There are no prerequisites and the class will be
capped.

Textbooks

Title

Author

ISBN

New Price

Venus

Parks

9781559361354

$13.95

Visual Arts

ART784 - 4 Credits - Introductory

Sculptors and architects share a language of three dimensions
that leads to diverse points of contact between their art forms.
This course will be an artist's look at buildings and sculpture
from various cultures and periods of history. Responses will be in
three forms: written research projects, sculpture and building
designs. Â Fee: $65Â Prerequisite: None

ART359 - 2 Credits - Advanced

Group critique of students' work on Plan. Methodology and goals
will be discussed as well as short readings on art and current
issues. May be repeated for credit. In addition to visiting artist
lectures, we may be traveling off campus to view and discuss art by
way of museum collections, artists' studio visits and galleries.
Most classes begin at 3:30 Tuesday. Students are also required to
attend six public lectures by visiting artists on Tuesday
afternoons at 4:00 pm followed by a critique session from 6:30 to
8:30 pm. Prerequisite: Plan application
on file or permission of instructor

ART8 - 4 Credits - Introductory

This course will explore oil painting through a series of
projects based on the model, still life, and landscape. The class
will begin by working on paper and expanding to include panel and
stretched canvas. Emphasis is on close observation as well as
individual response.Â

ART606 - 4 Credits - Intermediate

With an emphasis on process students will be encouraged to
explore collage, mixed media, three dimensional relief and
monoprinting as a way of generating opportunities for the
unexpected; of subject matter, process and rethinking the
definitions of working with and on paper. Â Prerequisite: Drawing I or
Studio Art or permission of instructor

Additional
Fee:$100

For Visual Arts offerings, see also:

World Studies Program

WSP50 - 1 Credit - Introductory

This course prepares students for finding cross-cultural
internships that support their academic and professional plans. It
includes self-assessment of interests and experiences; writing
effective resumes and cover letters; job search skills; and
interviewing techniques. Students will define career objectives in
the international field and have an opportunity to interview a
professional on the job. A session focuses on funding independent
study abroad. Guidelines are provided for relating the junior-year
internship to the senior Plan. (Pass/Fail grade.) Prerequisite :
None.

WSP73 - 4 Credits - Introductory

An introductory seminar designed to help students situate
themselves in time and place, and to begin to think historically,
culturally, and geographically.Â Students will select a
region of the world to focus on, and provide weekly presentations
tracking their region's developments, decade by decade, over the
last century.Â The class will also consider major
themes of the recent past including: colonialism, genocide, human
rights, socialism, globalization, and environmental
change.Â Required for WSP students; Open to non-WSP
students. Prerequisite: None

WSP74 - 4 Credits - Introductory

This class considers various contemporary strategies to make the
familiar strange in order to know it. Some of our authors use
Marxist analysis to show the political and economic relationships
between seemingly distant peoples. Â Some of the authors
practice the close reading of an anthropologist, providing thick
descriptions of resistance, compliance and cockfights. And some of
the authors make familiar and unfamiliar landscapes strange by
bringing in non-human actors and super human forces.

Course Objectives:

to become intimate with the terms and visions of contemporary
political theory;

to practice descriptive writing about political
encounters;

to analyze different political situations using contemporary
political theory.

ART6 - Variable Credits - Multi-Level

ART56 - 2 Credits - Multi-Level

Long weekly classes devoted to an analysis and discussion of
poems written for the class. Students encouraged to experiment with
forms and techniques. Prerequisite:permission of the instructor,
based on submitted manuscripts.

Writing Seminars

HUM1057 - 4 Credits - Introductory

The twentieth century was the bloodiest century in history: for
the first time technology made it possible for armed forces to
engage in routine attacks on civilian populations, to kill
indiscriminately and from a distance, to destroy entire cities from
the air, to threaten the annihilation of humanity itself. Our
experiences with war in the last century have set the stage for the
wars we fight today; more than that, our responses to today's
conflicts are predicated on ways of thinking about war, and about
human conflict generally, that developed in the preceding century.
In this course, we will attempt to understand the wars of the last
century, and the ways of thinking they have engendered, by looking
at various cultural reactions to them: these will include books
like Heller's Catch-22, Ernst Junger's
Storm of Steel,
Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western
Front, as well as films like "The Best Days of Our Lives,"
"Full Metal Jacket," and "Breaker Morant" and more. And of course,
we will write about all of it: expect at least three major papers,
culminating in a research paper, and weekly shorter writing
assignments. Discussions of the text will alternate with work on
writing: conferences, writing workshops, and discussions of style
and structure. Prerequisite: None

HUM1496 - 4 Credits - Introductory

This writing seminar will climb mountains. Throughout the
semester, weâ€™ll hike through a range of texts
that explore what the significance of mountains is to writers from
many different traditions. Authors that may be on the reading list
include Gary Snyder, Petrarch, Dogen, and Miriam Underhill.
Weâ€™ll write analytically about these texts and
creatively about the actual mountains we live amid. Finally,
weâ€™ll foray to some mountains. Did you know
Henry David Thoreau climbed Mt. Wantastiquet while visiting
Brattleboro? Have you read fire lookout tower poetry while in a
tower? Weâ€™ll make at least one group ascent of
a mountain, adding our voices and footsteps to the peaks.